Hope and Noncurative Chemotherapies: Which Affects the Other?

From the Research Centre and theService of Hematology and Oncology,University of Montreal Hospital Centre;Departments of Family Medicine,Health Administration, and Medicine,Faculty of Medicine, University ofMontreal; Maisonneuve-RosemontHospital; School of Social Work andDepartment of Psychology, Universityof Quebec at Montreal, Montreal; andFaculty of Education, University ofSherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec,Canada.Submitted October 29, 2009; acceptedJanuary 11, 2010; published onlineahead of print at www.jco.org onMarch 1, 2010.Supported by Grant No. IHP-97582from the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch.Authors’ disclosures of potential con-flicts of interest and author contribu-tions are found at the end of thisarticle.Corresponding author: Serge Daneault,MD, Unite´ des Soins Palliatifs, HoˆpitalNotre Dame, 1560 rue Sherbrooke est,Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L 4M1;e-mail: serge.daneault.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca.© 2010 by American Society of ClinicalOncology0732-183X/10/2813-2310/$20.00DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.26.8425